This screenshot created using no-cost FSCapture
on Windows! Works like Skitch for Mac!

Lance Sloan writes:

Miguel, you are absolutely right. I don’t know why Jing doesn’t save
screen capture movies to FLV, MP4, MPEG, or other common format. I
thought I would use it to demonstrate problems with my servers to the
support people who claim not to see any problem. Since the video could
contain sensitive information, I don’t want to share it on Jing’s own
services. I also want to make it as easy as possible for my support
folks to view the video, but getting a SWF file up on our servers isn’t
very convenient for me.

I’d also like to be able to edit the
video, cutting out the unimportant parts. Since it is a transient error
that I’m trying to demonstrate, it may take a while before the problem
appears. I’d like to edit the video down to only that part that I need.

I can’t disagree with Lance on his estimation of Jing’s lack of functionality, so to experiment with an alternative solution, I switched over to Windows and started playing around with uTipu
(TipCam) as a possible. I thought it would work great, but unfortunately, it stunk.

So, here’s another possibility that is cross-platform (Mac, Windows,GNU/Linux):

which doesn’t look too bad! I was a bit skeptical about using a Java-based screen recorder but…it worked well!

Here’s what creating a screen recording looks like (and it handles
audio, too!):

Here’s my recording of using GPGee (which I just discovered) to encrypt confidential files…the conversion to FLV that Edublogs.tv distorted the quality, but it recorded quitenicely (39 megs) when I saved it. This means, you can certainly use it for tutorials and such that run off CD or with less aggressive FLV encoding/compression.
(click image below to view 58 second video via Edublogs.tv)

Note that I was able to export the file as a Quicktime MOV, or have the option of saving it in an online account:

The web site itself has advertisement, but the recording is without
advertisements or notices…which is great! I would have added audio to
the recording but…I didn’t have my microphone connected. Will this
work as an alternative to Jing?

Let me know!

UPDATE: TechSmith announced recently that Jing Pro–which is cross-platform–is available for $14.95 a year. This is a great deal because the Pro version allows you to save to MP4 format, which can be easily converted to other formats. Way to go, TechSmith!!

For those that don’t want to buy the Pro version, but have access to Moodle, you can always embed the SWF file as a link resource on Moodle…and it will play on screen. I’ve found Jing to be superior to other screen recording software programs.

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